14 Quotes by Chantel Acevedo

I’ve seen it before, what mothers and daughters can do to one another during those terrible adolescent years. Grief must be at the bottom of it, for what is sadder for a parent than seeing her daughter shedding girlhood drop by precious drop? And what is more terrifying for a child than to doubt her mother, to begin to see her as a human with faults instead of as a goddess?

The first World War had finally come to a close and it all seemed like springtime. I’ve learned since that it is in those moments, when one is lulled into hopefulness, that the sword drops onto one’s head.

How hard it is to hate a person you’ve once loved.

Of course you can go on. It’s what we do. We go on. Learn how to live with the suffering we’re dealt.

Then, putting his palm on top of my head, like a warm hat, he whispered, “Pay attention. Be a person for whom love is not lost.